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title: "Cheaper alternatives to Command R+ (08-2024) · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/alternatives/cohere__command-r-plus-08-2024/
description: "115 models score at least as high as Command R+ (08-2024) and cost no more on a balanced workload. 107 give up nothing measurable; the other 8 name what they drop. Measured prices and independent scores."
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# Cheaper alternatives to Command R+ (08-2024) · Undominated.ai

> 115 models score at least as high as Command R+ (08-2024) and cost no more on a balanced workload. 107 give up nothing measurable; the other 8 name what they drop. Measured prices and independent scores.

# Cheaper alternatives to Command R+ (08-2024)

Cohere · LMArena 1229 · $4.38/M on a balanced workload · prices as of 2026-08-28

## 107 models are both better and cheaper, giving up nothing.

Of the 132 models carrying both an independent score and a published price at the same delivery mode, **115** score at least as high as Command R+ (08-2024) and cost no more under at least one workload. **107** match or beat it on every capability we hold — context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and extended reasoning. **8** do not, and every row names what it drops.

Dominance is not a property of a model. It is a property of a model, a capability lens and a workload, and all three are named on every row. Scores are LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset; prices are blended per million tokens. A higher score is not a drop-in replacement.

This page is built from that comparison and nothing else. When no model is both better and cheaper than Command R+ (08-2024), it is not generated.

## Where it holds

| Workload | Command R+ (08-2024) $/M | Better and cheaper | With a trade |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Balanced | $4.38 | 99 | 8 |
| Summarise | $2.88 | 107 | 8 |
| Chat | $5.50 | 101 | 8 |
| Code gen | $7.00 | 99 | 8 |
| Agentic | $3.63 | 107 | 8 |

Workload mixes are defined on the [methodology page](/methodology/). Cached input is priced at the cached rate, and reasoning tokens at the worse of the reasoning and output rates.

## What you would be replacing

| Intelligence | 1229 |
| --- | --- |
| Context window | 128K |
| Max output | 4K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Extended reasoning | no |

A replacement has to clear every line above, not just the score. [Full record for Command R+ (08-2024)](/models/cohere__command-r-plus-08-2024/).

## Better and cheaper, nothing given up 107

Each of these matches or beats Command R+ (08-2024) on context, maximum output, input modes, tool use and reasoning, scores at least as high, and costs no more.

| # | Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Gemini 3.7 Flash Google | 1490.2 +261.2 | $0.750 | Balanced −83% Summarise −88% Chat −84% Code gen −82% Agentic −89% |
| 2 | Qwen3.8 Max Qwen | 1481.9 +252.9 | $3.00 | Balanced −31% Summarise −41% Chat −44% Code gen −39% Agentic −57% |
| 3 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Google | 1482.6 +253.6 | $3.38 | Balanced −23% Summarise −48% Chat −26% Code gen −16% Agentic −50% |
| 4 | Muse Spark 1.1 Meta | 1478.3 +249.3 | $2.00 | Balanced −54% Summarise −62% Chat −61% Code gen −58% Agentic −71% |
| 5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash Google | 1476.5 +247.5 | $1.50 | Balanced −66% Summarise −75% Chat −68% Code gen −64% Agentic −78% |
| 6 | GLM 5.3 Z.ai | 1476.9 +247.9 | $2.15 | Balanced −51% Summarise −57% Chat −59% Code gen −56% Agentic −68% |
| 7 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi | 1465 +236 | $0.544 | Balanced −88% Summarise −88% Chat −91% Code gen −91% Agentic −93% |
| 8 | GLM 5.2 Z.ai | 1465.4 +236.4 | $1.83 | Balanced −58% Summarise −64% Chat −65% Code gen −62% Agentic −73% |
| 9 | GLM 5.1 Z.ai | 1464.1 +235.1 | $1.94 | Balanced −56% Summarise −62% Chat −63% Code gen −60% Agentic −71% |
| 10 | Qwen3.7 Plus Qwen | 1456.2 +227.2 | $0.560 | Balanced −87% Summarise −90% Chat −89% Code gen −87% Agentic −91% |
| 11 | Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1455 +226 | $1.71 | Balanced −61% Summarise −69% Chat −65% Code gen −61% Agentic −74% |
| 12 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Google | 1457.3 +228.3 | $3.44 | Balanced −21% Summarise −52% Chat −20% Code gen −8% Agentic −48% |
| 13 | Grok 4.5 xAI | 1452.3 +223.3 | $3.00 | Balanced −31% Summarise −40% Chat −44% Code gen −39% Agentic −56% |
| 14 | GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI | 1454.2 +225.2 | $4.00 | Balanced −9% Summarise −34% Chat −15% Code gen −5% Agentic −41% |
| 15 | Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI | 1445.2 +216.2 | $0.900 | Balanced −79% Summarise −85% Chat −81% Code gen −79% Agentic −86% |
| 16 | GLM 5 Z.ai | 1445.2 +216.2 | $0.930 | Balanced −79% Summarise −82% Chat −82% Code gen −81% Agentic −86% |
| 17 | Gemma 4 31B Google | 1441.7 +212.7 | $0.152 | Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −97% |
| 18 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview Qwen | 1446.3 +217.3 | $2.31 | Balanced −47% Summarise −55% Chat −44% Code gen −41% Agentic −50% |
| 19 | Hy3 Tencent | 1441.2 +212.2 | $0.144 | Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −98% |
| 20 | Qwen3.8 27B Qwen | 1440.8 +211.8 | $0.956 | Balanced −78% Summarise −85% Chat −79% Code gen −76% Agentic −85% |
| 21 | GLM 4.6 Z.ai | 1439.8 +210.8 | $0.875 | Balanced −80% Summarise −84% Chat −82% Code gen −80% Agentic −87% |
| 22 | Grok 4.6 xAI | 1443.7 +214.7 | $3.00 | Balanced −31% Summarise −38% Chat −43% Code gen −39% Agentic −53% |
| 23 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 DeepSeek | 1439.2 +210.2 | $1.09 | Balanced −75% Summarise −76% Chat −82% Code gen −81% Agentic −85% |
| 24 | Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen | 1438.3 +209.3 | $0.877 | Balanced −80% Summarise −83% Chat −79% Code gen −78% Agentic −81% |
| 25 | Inkling Thinking Machines | 1439.2 +210.2 | $1.73 | Balanced −61% Summarise −69% Chat −64% Code gen −61% Agentic −74% |
| 26 | Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen | 1436.8 +207.8 | $0.731 | Balanced −83% Summarise −86% Chat −82% Code gen −81% Agentic −84% |
| 27 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google | 1436.5 +207.5 | $0.850 | Balanced −81% Summarise −88% Chat −80% Code gen −77% Agentic −87% |
| 28 | Gemma 4 26B A4B Google | 1434.6 +205.6 | $0.138 | Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −97% |
| 29 | GLM 4.7 Z.ai | 1435.3 +206.3 | $0.738 | Balanced −83% Summarise −87% Chat −85% Code gen −83% Agentic −89% |
| 30 | MiniMax M3 MiniMax | 1434.8 +205.8 | $0.525 | Balanced −88% Summarise −90% Chat −89% Code gen −88% Agentic −92% |
| 31 | GPT-5.1 OpenAI | 1441.4 +212.4 | $3.44 | Balanced −21% Summarise −52% Chat −20% Code gen −8% Agentic −48% |
| 32 | Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic | 1442.3 +213.3 | $4.00 | Balanced −9% Summarise −34% Chat −15% Code gen −5% Agentic −41% |
| 33 | GLM 5V Turbo Z.ai | 1436.8 +207.8 | $1.90 | Balanced −57% Summarise −63% Chat −63% Code gen −60% Agentic −71% |
| 34 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 DeepSeek | 1431.6 +202.6 | $0.101 | Balanced −98% Summarise −98% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −98% |
| 35 | GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI | 1428.5 +199.5 | $0.450 | Balanced −90% Summarise −93% Chat −90% Code gen −89% Agentic −93% |
| 36 | GLM 4.5 Z.ai | 1429.4 +200.4 | $1.00 | Balanced −77% Summarise −81% Chat −80% Code gen −78% Agentic −85% |
| 37 | MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi | 1427.3 +198.3 | $0.175 | Balanced −96% Summarise −96% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −98% |
| 38 | R1 0528 DeepSeek | 1427.9 +198.9 | $0.912 | Balanced −79% Summarise −81% Chat −80% Code gen −79% Agentic −82% |
| 39 | DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | 1424.6 +195.6 | $0.290 | Balanced −93% Summarise −92% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −94% |
| 40 | DeepSeek V3.2 Exp DeepSeek | 1424.4 +195.4 | $0.305 | Balanced −93% Summarise −90% Chat −94% Code gen −95% Agentic −92% |
| 41 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen | 1420.9 +191.9 | $0.632 | Balanced −86% Summarise −91% Chat −84% Code gen −83% Agentic −89% |
| 42 | Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Qwen | 1419.3 +190.3 | $0.205 | Balanced −95% Summarise −96% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −96% |
| 43 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek | 1419.6 +190.6 | $0.453 | Balanced −90% Summarise −91% Chat −91% Code gen −90% Agentic −92% |
| 44 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Qwen | 1418.6 +189.6 | $0.350 | Balanced −92% Summarise −95% Chat −91% Code gen −90% Agentic −94% |
| 45 | DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek | 1419.1 +190.1 | $0.825 | Balanced −81% Summarise −79% Chat −82% Code gen −83% Agentic −80% |
| 46 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen | 1417.9 +188.9 | $0.715 | Balanced −84% Summarise −88% Chat −82% Code gen −81% Agentic −85% |
| 47 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Google | 1417.3 +188.3 | $0.850 | Balanced −81% Summarise −88% Chat −80% Code gen −77% Agentic −87% |
| 48 | Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral | 1420.9 +191.9 | $3.00 | Balanced −31% Summarise −37% Chat −29% Code gen −27% Agentic −34% |
| 49 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview Google | 1414.8 +185.8 | $0.563 | Balanced −87% Summarise −91% Chat −88% Code gen −86% Agentic −92% |
| 50 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 Qwen | 1413.8 +184.8 | $0.748 | Balanced −83% Summarise −88% Chat −81% Code gen −79% Agentic −85% |
| 51 | Inkling Small Thinking Machines | 1411.7 +182.7 | $0.637 | Balanced −85% Summarise −87% Chat −88% Code gen −88% Agentic −90% |
| 52 | Qwen3 Max Qwen | 1412.7 +183.7 | $1.56 | Balanced −64% Summarise −74% Chat −67% Code gen −63% Agentic −76% |
| 53 | GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI | 1412.1 +183.1 | $1.69 | Balanced −61% Summarise −74% Chat −63% Code gen −58% Agentic −75% |
| 54 | Qwen3.5-27B Qwen | 1407.9 +178.9 | $0.536 | Balanced −88% Summarise −91% Chat −87% Code gen −86% Agentic −89% |
| 55 | MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | 1405.3 +176.3 | $0.525 | Balanced −88% Summarise −90% Chat −89% Code gen −88% Agentic −92% |
| 56 | Step 3.5 Flash StepFun | 1403.8 +174.8 | $0.150 | Balanced −97% Summarise −96% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −96% |
| 57 | o3 OpenAI | 1409.2 +180.2 | $3.50 | Balanced −20% Summarise −35% Chat −28% Code gen −22% Agentic −45% |
| 58 | GPT-5 OpenAI | 1405.6 +176.6 | $3.44 | Balanced −21% Summarise −52% Chat −20% Code gen −8% Agentic −48% |
| 59 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen | 1400.6 +171.6 | $1.30 | Balanced −70% Summarise −80% Chat −67% Code gen −63% Agentic −74% |
| 60 | Qwen3.5-Flash Qwen | 1397.6 +168.6 | $0.114 | Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −97% |
| 61 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen | 1395.6 +166.6 | $0.500 | Balanced −89% Summarise −90% Chat −88% Code gen −88% Agentic −89% |
| 62 | Grok 4.3 xAI | 1397.5 +168.5 | $1.56 | Balanced −64% Summarise −65% Chat −74% Code gen −73% Agentic −78% |
| 63 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic | 1394.9 +165.9 | $2.00 | Balanced −54% Summarise −67% Chat −58% Code gen −52% Agentic −71% |
| 64 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 Qwen | 1384.3 +155.3 | $0.084 | Balanced −98% Summarise −98% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −98% |
| 65 | GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | 1382.8 +153.8 | $0.310 | Balanced −93% Summarise −95% Chat −93% Code gen −92% Agentic −95% |
| 66 | Solar Pro 4 Upstage | 1376.2 +147.2 | $0.052 | Balanced −99% Summarise −99% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −99% |
| 67 | GPT-4.1 OpenAI | 1382.3 +153.3 | $3.50 | Balanced −20% Summarise −35% Chat −28% Code gen −22% Agentic −45% |
| 68 | DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek | 1375 +146 | $0.438 | Balanced −90% Summarise −90% Chat −90% Code gen −90% Agentic −90% |
| 69 | GLM 4.6V Z.ai | 1374.7 +145.7 | $0.450 | Balanced −90% Summarise −91% Chat −92% Code gen −91% Agentic −93% |
| 70 | GPT-5 Mini OpenAI | 1373.4 +144.4 | $0.688 | Balanced −84% Summarise −90% Chat −84% Code gen −82% Agentic −90% |
| 71 | GPT-5.4 Nano OpenAI | 1372.8 +143.8 | $0.463 | Balanced −89% Summarise −93% Chat −90% Code gen −88% Agentic −93% |
| 72 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Qwen | 1367.5 +138.5 | $0.412 | Balanced −91% Summarise −93% Chat −90% Code gen −89% Agentic −92% |
| 73 | gpt-oss-120b OpenAI | 1365.6 +136.6 | $0.070 | Balanced −98% Summarise −98% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −98% |
| 74 | Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen | 1366 +137 | $0.796 | Balanced −82% Summarise −82% Chat −82% Code gen −82% Agentic −82% |
| 75 | Nova 2 Lite Amazon | 1362.2 +133.2 | $0.850 | Balanced −81% Summarise −86% Chat −79% Code gen −77% Agentic −83% |
| 76 | MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax | 1359 +130 | $0.472 | Balanced −89% Summarise −92% Chat −91% Code gen −89% Agentic −93% |
| 77 | Gemma 3 27B Google | 1358.3 +129.3 | $0.172 | Balanced −96% Summarise −97% Chat −96% Code gen −96% Agentic −97% |
| 78 | Mercury 2 Inception | 1357.8 +128.8 | $0.375 | Balanced −91% Summarise −93% Chat −93% Code gen −92% Agentic −95% |
| 79 | GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | 1352.9 +123.9 | $0.145 | Balanced −97% Summarise −98% Chat −97% Code gen −96% Agentic −98% |
| 80 | o4 Mini OpenAI | 1352.5 +123.5 | $1.93 | Balanced −56% Summarise −64% Chat −61% Code gen −57% Agentic −70% |
| 81 | MiniMax M2 MiniMax | 1342.1 +113.1 | $0.446 | Balanced −90% Summarise −90% Chat −90% Code gen −90% Agentic −90% |
| 82 | Trinity Large Thinking Arcee | 1341.9 +112.9 | $0.378 | Balanced −91% Summarise −93% Chat −92% Code gen −92% Agentic −94% |
| 83 | Qwen3 32B Qwen | 1340.1 +111.1 | $0.130 | Balanced −97% Summarise −97% Chat −97% Code gen −97% Agentic −97% |
| 84 | MiniMax M1 MiniMax | 1341.9 +112.9 | $0.963 | Balanced −78% Summarise −78% Chat −78% Code gen −78% Agentic −78% |
| 85 | GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI | 1340.5 +111.5 | $0.700 | Balanced −84% Summarise −87% Chat −86% Code gen −84% Agentic −89% |
| 86 | Gemma 3 12B Google | 1334.2 +105.2 | $0.075 | Balanced −98% Summarise −98% Chat −98% Code gen −98% Agentic −98% |
| 87 | o3 Mini High OpenAI | 1336.6 +107.6 | $1.93 | Balanced −56% Summarise −61% Chat −59% Code gen −57% Agentic −65% |
| 88 | DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek | 1332.6 +103.6 | $0.450 | Balanced −90% Summarise −90% Chat −90% Code gen −90% Agentic −90% |
| 89 | GPT-5 Nano OpenAI | 1320.3 +91.3 | $0.138 | Balanced −97% Summarise −98% Chat −97% Code gen −96% Agentic −98% |
| 90 | Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen | 1316.9 +87.9 | $0.215 | Balanced −95% Summarise −95% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −95% |
| 91 | o3 Mini OpenAI | 1319.2 +90.2 | $1.93 | Balanced −56% Summarise −61% Chat −59% Code gen −57% Agentic −65% |
| 92 | Granite 4.1 8B IBM | 1291.6 +62.6 | $0.063 | Balanced −99% Summarise −98% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −98% |
| 93 | gpt-oss-20b OpenAI | 1287.8 +58.8 | $0.055 | Balanced −99% Summarise −99% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −99% |
| 94 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) OpenAI | 1286.6 +57.6 | $0.263 | Balanced −94% Summarise −95% Chat −94% Code gen −94% Agentic −95% |
| 95 | GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI | 1284.8 +55.8 | $0.175 | Balanced −96% Summarise −97% Chat −96% Code gen −96% Agentic −97% |
| 96 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta | 1274.9 +45.9 | $0.710 | Balanced −84% Summarise −75% Chat −87% Code gen −90% Agentic −80% |
| 97 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI | 1282.7 +53.7 | $4.38 | Balanced same price Summarise −12% Chat −7% Code gen −1% Agentic −21% |
| 98 | Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Meta | 1261 +32 | $0.400 | Balanced −91% Summarise −86% Chat −93% Code gen −94% Agentic −89% |
| 99 | Mistral Large 2407 Mistral | 1266.3 +37.3 | $3.00 | Balanced −31% Summarise −41% Chat −44% Code gen −39% Agentic −58% |
| 100 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google | 1479.5 +250.5 | $1.99 summarise | Summarise −31% Chat −1% Agentic −33% |
| 101 | Kimi K3 Moonshot AI | 1476.3 +247.3 | $2.83 summarise | Summarise −2% Agentic −12% |
| 102 | GPT-5.4 OpenAI | 1469.6 +240.6 | $2.48 summarise | Summarise −14% Agentic −16% |
| 103 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | 1457.6 +228.6 | $2.83 summarise | Summarise −2% Agentic −12% |
| 104 | GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI | 1446 +217 | $1.99 summarise | Summarise −31% Chat −1% Agentic −33% |
| 105 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic | 1438 +209 | $2.83 summarise | Summarise −2% Agentic −12% |
| 106 | GPT-5.2 OpenAI | 1416.5 +187.5 | $1.91 summarise | Summarise −33% Agentic −27% |
| 107 | Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic | 1338.2 +109.2 | $2.83 summarise | Summarise −2% Agentic −12% |

## Cheaper and higher-scoring, but you give something up 8

These score at least as high and cost no more on the two plotted axes, and lose something that is not on them. Read the last column before switching.

| Model | Intelligence | $/M | Holds under | What you give up |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| R1 DeepSeek | 1372.7 +143.7 | $1.15 | Balanced −74% Summarise −73% Chat −74% Code gen −75% Agentic −73% | 128K → 64K context |
| GLM 4.5V Z.ai | 1333.6 +104.6 | $0.900 | Balanced −79% Summarise −82% Chat −83% Code gen −82% Agentic −87% | 128K → 66K context |
| Olmo 3 32B Think Allen AI | 1298.5 +69.5 | $0.237 | Balanced −95% Summarise −94% Chat −95% Code gen −95% Agentic −94% | 128K → 66K context no tool use |
| Gemma 3 4B Google | 1290.8 +61.8 | $0.063 | Balanced −99% Summarise −98% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −98% | no tool use |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen | 1269.1 +40.1 | $0.370 | Balanced −92% Summarise −87% Chat −93% Code gen −95% Agentic −90% | 128K → 33K context |
| Mistral Small 3 Mistral | 1233.6 tie | $0.058 | Balanced −99% Summarise −98% Chat −99% Code gen −99% Agentic −98% | 128K → 33K context no tool use |
| Gemma 2 27B Google | 1231.5 tie | $0.650 | Balanced −85% Summarise −77% Chat −88% Code gen −91% Agentic −82% | 128K → 8K context 4K → 2K max output no tool use |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct Qwen | 1230.2 tie | $0.745 | Balanced −83% Summarise −76% Chat −86% Code gen −88% Agentic −80% | 128K → 33K context no tool use |

## What this compares, and what it leaves out

 - Quality is LMArena Elo, used under CC BY 4.0 from the official dataset. The 95% confidence interval on a difference between two scores is about ±10.68 points, so a gap smaller than that is marked *tie* rather than an improvement — see [significance bands](/significance/).
 - 188 further models at this delivery mode carry a price but no independent score. They are absent from the comparison in both directions — unrated is not a zero, and an unmeasured model is neither an alternative nor a worse buy.
 - Retired models are never offered as an alternative, and a model only competes against its own delivery mode: batch trades latency for price, so it is not a like-for-like swap.
 - Nothing here measures latency, throughput, rate limits or how a model behaves on your prompts. Two models with the same index score are not interchangeable.
 - The models that nothing beats on both axes are on the [value frontier](/frontier/), and every other model something cheaper beats is [listed here](/alternatives/).